“Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer may have been crazy to offer $33 per share or more for Yahoo, but Yahoo was even crazier to turn it down. Okay, how about $22?”

Yahoo has been a top story this year mainly because Microsoft tried to buy it for $33 a share, or more. Crazy? Maybe. But there’s not much Microsoft can do with its money except give it back to shareholders.

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Microsoft Advert during XFactor UK

Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Jack in Miscellaneous

Microsoft has desperately turned to Simon Cowell to help sprinkle some X Factor dust on Windows Vista, giving the already has-been OS a last shot at stardom.

In its latest effort to get the youth to take up Vista, Microsoft will debut its ‘I’m a PC’ ad campaign in the UK during a commercial break in the first live X Factor show on ITV1 tomorrow night (Saturday 11th October)

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Virgin Media prepares for 50Mbit/s

Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Jack in Industry News, Miscellaneous

Virgin Media believes it is being shafted by comparison sites offering ISP speed checks, and has called on them to improve their techniques ahead of the launch of its 50Mbit/s upgrade.

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Einstein letters go on sale

Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Jack in Miscellaneous

A collection of letters penned by Albert Einstein in which he set out his views on how to deal with a belligerent post-war Russia and dismissed as “twaddle” the notion that his theories were difficult to understand, will go under the hammer in London next Thursday.

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